Post title comes from Dana Milbank’s column in today’s WaPo (via Michelle at the Plank) about a forum at AEI yesterday on the topic of why me and my people are “so doggone smart”:
Entine, author of the new book “Abraham’s Children: Race, Identity and the DNA of the Chosen People,” argued that genetic mutations gave Jews very high IQs. “If you had one of these mutations” — such as those that cause Tay-Sachs disease — “it probably could cause high intelligence,” he asserted.
Fellow AEI fellow Charles Murray suggested that the rigors of Talmudic study drove out the dull Jews centuries ago. “If you were dumb and a Jew,” said the philo-Semitic Murray, “it was a lot easier to be a Christian.” Murray, best known for his incendiary book about race and intelligence, “The Bell Curve,” explored Jewish smarts in an April article in Commentary titled “Jewish Genius.”
I love this line from Charles Murray: “Jews get so embarrassed about Jewish IQ: ‘We know we’re smart but don’t tell anyone else.’” Yes indeed, that must be it.
I myself, it should be noted, have no opinion on any of this whatsoever.
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